30 Great Reductions in this Catalogue 



M. C. COOKE, M.A., LL. D.— continued. 



Our Reptiles and Batrachians. A Plain and Easy Account of the 



Lizards, Snakes, Newts, Toads, Frogs, and Tortoises indigenous to 



Great Britain. New and Revised Edition. With original Coloured 



Pictures of every Species, and numerous Woodcuts. Crown 8vo, 6s. 



Contents. 

 Beptilee and Snake-stones. The Blind Worm. The Common Frog. 



The Oommon Lizard. The Common Snake. The Edible Frog. 



The Sand Lizard, The Smooth Snake. The Common Toad. 



The Green Lizard. The Viper, or Adder. Common Smooth Newt or 



The Natterjack. Great Water Newt. Eft. 



Palmato Newt. ' Gray's Banded Newt. The Hawk's-Bill Turtle. 



The Leathery Turtle. Amphibia or Batrachianp. Appendix. 



*' Mr Cooke has especially distinguished himself as a student of the fungi and the 

 fresh-water algte, his works on these orders being the standard treatises in English. 

 He has also paid some attention to zoology and chemistry, his education in these as in ^ 

 other scionees being obtained by persistent self-instruction." — Celebrities of l/ie Century. 



Rust, Smut, Mildew, and Mould. An Introduction to the Study of 



Microscopic Fungi. Illustrated ■with 269 Coloured Figures by J. 



E. Sowerby. Fifth Edition, Revised and Enlarged, with Appendix 



of New Species. Crown 8vo, 6s. 



Those of our readers who are the happy possessors of microscopes would welcome 



this book with delight, as opening the way to a definite study of a most interesting 



branch of plant life. The minute fungi,^ hero so faithfully depicted by Mr Sowerby, 



and so carefully described by Dr Cooke, liave not only beauty of form and colour, but 



wonderful life-histories. Every hedge or lane or piece of waste ground, even in the 



suburbs of large towns, will provide specimens, which may be easily preserved on the 



plants which they attack or mounted as microscope slides. 



Tinportant to Botanists and Students of Naturat History. 

 European Fungi (Hymenomycetum) — Synoptical Key to. Cooke 

 (M. C.) and Quelet {L., M.D., &c.) — Clavis Synoptica Hymenomy- 

 cetum Europseorum. Fcap. 8vo, 7s. 6d. ; or, interleaved with ruled 

 paper, 8s. 6d. 

 " Without pretending to high scientific quality, the work throughout is well fitted to 

 instruct and to attract a class of readers who might shrink from grappling with a 

 scientific text-book." — SeUxcrday Review. 



BARON CUVJER. 

 The Animal Kingdom. With considerable Additions by \i^ B. 

 Carpenter, M.D., F.R.S., and J. O. Westwood, F.L.S. New 

 Edition, Illustrated with 500 Engravings on Wood and 36 Coloured 

 Plates., Imp. 8vo, 21s. 

 J. HUNTER, late Hon. Sec, of the British Bee-Ji^epers' Association. 

 A Manual of Bee-keeping. Containing Practical Information for 

 Rational and Profitable Methods of Bee Management. Full Instruc- 

 tions on Stimulative Feeding, Ligurianising and Queen-raising, with 

 descriptions of the American Comb Foundation, Sectional Supers, 

 and the best Hives and Apiarian Appliances on all systems. Fourth 

 Edition. With Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d. 

 '* We cordially recommend Mr Hunter's neat and compact Manual of Boe-kceping. 

 Mr Hunter writes clearly and well." — Science Gossip. 



" We are indebted to Mr J . Hunter, Honorary Secretary of the British Bee-keepers' 

 Association, His Manual of Bee-keeping, just published. Is full to the very brim of 

 choice and practical hints fully up to the most advanced stages of Apiarian Science, 

 and its perusal has afforded us so much pleasure that we have drawn somewhat largeJy 

 from it for the benefit of our readers." — Bee-keepers' Magazine (iVewj York). 



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